Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCEPeople trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
More James Joyce Quotes
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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